1At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
2And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and
disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam;
and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, who
spake concerning me that I should be king over this people. 3And take with thee ten loaves, and cakes, and a cruse of honey, and
go to him: he will tell thee what shall become of the child. 4And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came
to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were
set by reason of his age. 5And Jehovah said unto Ahijah,
Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to inquire of thee concerning
her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her; for
it will be, when she cometh in, that she will feign herself to be
another woman.

6And it was so, when Ahijah heard the
sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, Come
in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself to be another?
for I am sent to thee with heavy tidings. 7Go, tell
Jeroboam, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Forasmuch as I
exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my
people Israel, 8and rent the kingdom away from the house
of David, and gave it thee; and yet thou hast not been as my servant
David, who kept my commandments, and who followed me with all his
heart, to do that only which was right in mine eyes, 9but hast done evil above all that were before thee, and hast gone
and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger,
and hast cast me behind thy back: 10therefore, behold, I
will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from
Jeroboam every man-child, him that is shut up and him that is left
at large in Israel, and will utterly sweep away the house of
Jeroboam, as a man sweepeth away dung, till it be all gone. 11Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him
that dieth in the field shall the birds of the heavens eat: for
Jehovah hath spoken it. 12Arise thou therefore, get thee
to thy house: and when thy feet enter into the city, the child shall
die. 13And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him;
for he only of Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because in him
there is found some good thing toward Jehovah, the God of Israel, in
the house of Jeroboam. 14Moreover Jehovah will raise him
up a king over Israel, who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that
day: but what? even now. 15For Jehovah will smite
Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel
out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will
scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherim,
provoking Jehovah to anger. 16And he will give Israel up
because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he hath sinned, and wherewith
he hath made Israel to sin.

17And Jeroboam's wife arose,
and departed, and came to Tirzah: and as she came to the threshold
of the house, the child died. 18And all Israel buried
him, and mourned for him, according to the word of Jehovah, which he
spake by his servant Ahijah the prophet.

19And the rest
of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred, and how he reigned, behold,
they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Israel. 20And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two
and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son
reigned in his stead.

21And Rehoboam the son of Solomon
reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty and one years old when he began
to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city
which Jehovah had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his
name there: and his mother's name was Naamah the Ammonitess. 22And Judah did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and they
provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above
all that their fathers had done. 23For they also built
them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and
under every green tree; 24and there were also sodomites
in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the
nations which Jehovah drove out before the children of Israel.

25And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam,
that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem; 26and he took away the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the
treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took
away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made. 27And king Rehoboam made in their stead shields of brass, and
committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, who kept
the door of the king's house. 28And it was so, that, as
oft as the king went into the house of Jehovah, the guard bare them,
and brought them back into the guard-chamber.

29Now the
rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? 30And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually. 31And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers
in the city of David: and his mother's name was Naamah the
Ammonitess. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead.

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1Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son
of Nebat began Abijam to reign over Judah. 2Three years
reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's name was Maacah the
daughter of Abishalom. 3And he walked in all the sins of
his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not
perfect with Jehovah his God, as the heart of David his father.
4Nevertheless for David's sake did Jehovah his God give him a
lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish
Jerusalem; 5because David did that which was right in
the eyes of Jehovah, and turned not aside from anything that he
commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of
Uriah the Hittite. 6Now there was war between Rehoboam
and Jeroboam all the days of his life.

7And the rest of
the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the
book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war
between Abijam and Jeroboam. 8And Abijam slept with his
fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son
reigned in his stead.

9And in the twentieth year of
Jeroboam king of Israel began Asa to reign over Judah. 10And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem: and his mother's
name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom. 11And Asa did
that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, as did David his
father. 12And he put away the sodomites out of the land,
and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. 13And also Maacah his mother he removed from being queen, because she
had made an abominable image for an Asherah; and Asa cut down her
image, and burnt it at the brook Kidron. 14But the high
places were not taken away: nevertheless the heart of Asa was
perfect with Jehovah all his days. 15And he brought into
the house of Jehovah the things that his father had dedicated, and
the things that himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and
vessels.

16And there was war between Asa and Baasha king
of Israel all their days. 17And Baasha king of Israel
went up against Judah, and built Ramah, that he might not suffer any
one to go out or come in to Asa king of Judah. 18Then
Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures
of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king's house, and
delivered them into the hand of his servants; and king Asa sent them
to Ben-hadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of
Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying, 19There is a
league between me and thee, between my father and thy father:
behold, I have sent unto thee a present of silver and gold; go,
break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from
me. 20And Ben-hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent
the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel, and smote
Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all
the land of Naphtali. 21And it came to pass, when Baasha
heard thereof, that he left off building Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.
22Then king Asa made a proclamation unto all Judah; none
was exempted: and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the
timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built
therewith Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

23Now the rest
of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and
the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Judah? But in the time of his old age he
was diseased in his feet. 24And Asa slept with his
fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his
father; and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.

25And Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the
second year of Asa king of Judah; and he reigned over Israel two
years. 26And he did that which was evil in the sight of
Jehovah, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin
wherewith he made Israel to sin. 27And Baasha the son of
Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha
smote him at Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines; for Nadab
and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon. 28Even in
the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned
in his stead. 29And it came to pass that, as soon as he
was king, he smote all the house of Jeroboam: he left not to
Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him; according
unto the saying of Jehovah, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the
Shilonite; 30for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned,
and wherewith he made Israel to sin, because of his provocation
wherewith he provoked Jehovah, the God of Israel, to anger.

31Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
32And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all
their days.

33In the third year of Asa king of Judah
began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah,
and reigned twenty and four years. 34And he did that
which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and walked in the way of
Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.

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